After graduating from Arizona State University in 2004, Akshai J. Patel spent five years teaching elementary school in Phoenix, one year educating teachers in Chile, and three years acting as managing director of the Phoenix charter school he co-founded. He then spent 10 months juggling dual roles as the part-time director of his charter school on one side of the country and as an MBA student at Columbia University on the other, where he is learning to expand his charter school into a network as well as launching his own educational... More >>>